**A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**
We’ve all been on promising dates that left us feeling worse in the long run, suffered from breakups we might have mishandled, or stayed in relationships which should have worked but didn’t. So what are we missing?
‘Locked-in syndrome: paralysed from head to toe, the patient, his mind intact, is imprisoned inside his own body, unable to speak or move. In my case, blinking my left eyelid is my only means of communication.’
Why do words fail men when they need them most? Why is the subject of what men want emotionally, shrouded in silence? This is a book that attempts, in the style of Blake Morrison and Richard Rayner, to put men’s experience of Love into words.
“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.” Gertrude Stein
“Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock”. Ben Hecht
